Darwin's term "living fossils" has influenced evolutionary theory from the outset. Still today, it surfaces under many guises: taxonomic and morphological rates, punctuated equilibrium and stasis, highly conserved genes, and more. But Darwin's presentation in the and other writings is a ...
(Terry Eagleton,Literary Theory: An Introduction. University of Minnesota Press, 1983) Further Observations on Rhetoric "When you hear words like 'parenthesis,' 'apology,' 'colon,' 'comma,' or 'period'; when someone talks about a 'commonplace' or 'using a figure of speech,' you're hearing...